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What level do you wish to discuss this at? How well trained in science are you?
Perhaps you are referring to Plank's constant, which implies that when things get close enough together, even though they are still far enough apart to discuss the distance mathematically, they are indistinguishable physically.
Mathematically, the issue is that in order to do any science before about 10k years ago, we must make assumptions about the physical forces int he universe. If the measurements then were different from the measurements now, then any computations could be wrong. And we have no way to check those measurement. Now, scientists argue that change of measurements would show in geology or various other ways, but this is wrong and they know it, as everyone agrees that time dilates as you go over the radius of a black hole, and that there is no way those on the space ship could know they are doing this.
I will teach the scientific evidence, and the various theories. Then, I would encourage each student to choose for himself based on scientific method, and present his thoughts as a class project. If you are correct that I cannot teach evolution as one of these theories, then this is no more science than the current situation where we cannot teach creationism.
The world is 6,000 years old but looks older because God made it look that way.
The physical forces and laws that we have today were different or non-existent in the past meaning that trying to measure the past using the physics of today is futile. This is dad's favorite.
Laugh all you want but evolutionary theory doesn't make any such claim.Evolution is a theory that tries to tell me that a finch with enough time could transform into a Galapagos Tortoise or vice/versa
I wouldn't buy that either. Good thing evolution says no such thing.
The reducible mousetrap
What is a kind and what prevents it from becoming a new kind?
Considering the OP question, as a practical matter, you can reasonably assume that the level will be appropriate to a unit (10-20 classroom hours) in a "pass" science class for non-college-bound high school sophomores taught by a PE coach.
My point is that we cannot know (as a scientist). We cannot be certain that the laws we use to make scientific inference were the same then as they are now.
They aren't learning anything now in such classes. The PE coach can teach anything he wants, the result will be the same. They will have to wait until a better situation comes along to learn any science.
Nothing substantive about ID theory in it--it's just the usual ignorant slanderous rant about how evolution is atheistic.
